From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-06-20T08:38:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

Hi,

In message "Re: Unicode roadmap?"
    on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:20:10 +0900, "Michal Suchanek" <hramrach@centrum.cz> writes:

|Reading what you said it appears it would be only possible to add
|ascii strings to ascii-compatible sttings. That does not sound very
|useful.

You will have all your strings in the encoding you choose as a
internal encoding in the usual case, so that you will have a few
compatibility problem.  Only if you want to handle multiple encodings
at a time, you need explicit code conversion for mix encoding
operations.

|I guess that for calculation so complex that it would really benefit
|form the fast random access of UTF-32 it is reasonable to create a
|wrapper that converts the arguments and results. However, If one wants
|to perform several such (different) consecutive calculations there are
|going to be several useless conversions.

I am not sure what you mean.  I feel like that my plan does not have
anything against UTF-32 in this regard.  Perhaps, I am missing
something.  What is going to cause useless conversions?

							matz.